Bolsheviki Talk of Resuming War Amid Russian Chaos
A Vienna dispatch via Amsterdam reports Bolshevik leaders vow to resume hostilities unless German forces quit Russian soil while admitting their army is in chaos. Berlin set talks, Czernin and Kuhlmann travel to Brest-Litovsk as German officials push for quick Reichstag action. Western sentiment worries over Poland and Courland terms, with no clear move toward peace. The piece notes Bolshevik denunciations of Brest-Litovsk and hints at German pressure on allies.
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London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Brest-Litovsk
Berlin
Haron Kuhlmann
Crown Council
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Gietteral Tudendorff
Htis
Czernin
Kuhlmann
Hrest-Litovsk
Poland
Courland, &c
Brest Litovel
Reichstag
Kiclmann
Westminster Gazette
Haltle
Russia
McAdoo led push to ease freight crisis with overtime and docks aid
Government moves under McAdoo to ease coal and freight bottlenecks with overtime orders for workers, broader use of docks, and possible government control of express firms. Hylan offers city help. Brotherhood leaders to decide on wages. Conference targets expanding coal handling, rerouting freight, and concentrating passenger service while weighing public works to avert shortages.
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Genral
R. B. Wright
J. Anderson
Pennsylvania
I. F. Vossburgh
New York Central
A. B. Smith
New Haven Lines
W. Hoke
Central Railroad of
New Jerse
Brotherhood
Isbor
McAdoo
Murray Hulbert
New York City
New York
Stanley Urges Co ordination of Mines and Rails in War
London perspectives on U S coal and rail integration under McAdoo with Albert Stanley as key proponent. Interview details a British model for coordinating mines and railways to cut prices, fix wages, and distribute output efficiently, including a pool system and excess profits sharing with the state taking a cut.
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America
Amera
McAdoo
Rallway
Albert Stanley
Board of Trade
Lord Northcliffe
London Underground
Associated Enterprises
Katte Pel
Albert
Roth
Anc
Board of Trends
Gaid Sir Alvert
Drastic Action Increases City Coal Supply Barges
City announces drastic action to boost coal supply with 125,000 tons at tidewater. Mayor agrees to redeploy street cleaning crews to break out coal. Long Island relief arrives as seventy coal cars pass through Pennsylvania tubes.
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Havenns
Staten Island
New Jersey
Hylan
Pougakerpsie
West Thirty -Seventh Street
Reeve Schley
Uoe
Ise
Tidewater
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Island City
Sunnyside
Pennsylvania
Manhattan
Long Island Railroad
Brooklyn
Long Island
Schley
Queensboro Bridge
East New York Terminal
Parkville
Queens
Evergreen
Gour
Elmhurst
Ozone Park
Jamaica
Flushing
Camp Upton
Farmingdale
Lynbrook
Roslyn
Mineola
Amityville
West Trampton
Greenport
West Side Railroad
Lehigh Valley
Twenty-seventh Street
Moves to Add New Cabinet Member
Fear another cold snap grips New York as city and state fuel officials, railroad executives, and authorities coordinate with fuel administrators to avert shortages. Despite coal receipts below normal, plans indicate a nearing solution amid heavy preparation. U S agents in big deals Eisenman discloses list of defense advisers who took
Put War Service On Men Of Class 1 Urges Crowder
Washington reports Provost Marshal General Crowder urges restricting service to youths without dependents and discusses age limits while detailing draft class 1 needs. He estimates 700,000 annual additions, favors not widening age, and calls for fair state quotas based on class 1.
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Crowder
Major Ten
Enoch Crowder
America
General Crowder
War Department
Britain Needs Fighting Men May Take Factory Workers
London officials and trades union representatives met at Westminster to weigh manpower needs. Sir Auckland Geddes said the Russian situation shifted the balance and American armies would soon help, but Britain must recruit many more men from munitions and for fighting units to sustain the field forces. The session adjourned to tomorrow.
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Britain
London
Westminster
Sir Auckland Geddes
British tonnage and war losses detailed in 1918 NYT report
London Jan 3 The New York Times publishes shipping figures from a reliable source showing British seagoing ships over 1600 tons in August 1914 at 16,941,519 tons with 2,770,000 losses from enemy action and other causes. Remaining Jan 1 1919 total 14,601,518 tons. The data illustrate the submarine campaign impact on British shipping.
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New York Times
London
Flynn resigns as Secret Service chief amid Justice row
Washington reports a circumstantial tale of Flynn quitting as Treasury Secret Service head after failing to gain Justice Department cooperation. He allegedly warned Secretary McAdoo that resignation would follow unless conditions changed, amid wider friction with Justice and Navy Intelligence, and disputes over internment of alien enemies.
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Washington
William J. Flynn
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Flynn
McAdoo
Whitson
Allies Now May Bolshevik Recognition Moves Stir Hope
London dispatch reports Allied policy to recognize Lenin's government in Russia as German duplicity shifts calculations. A de facto recognition may reach the Bolshevik regime, with Lenine likely to receive embassy status in London. Trotzky exits Petrograd as turmoil mounts, while prospects of war and uneasy peace loom amid German influence and Russian upheaval.
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York
Times
London
Russia
Litvinof
George Buchanan
Tiamit
George
Petrograd
Trotzky
Germany
Lenine
Counter Proposals From Russians at Brest Litovsk Talks
A Daily Mail despatch from Petrograd reports that Russian counter proposals to German allies are under study and will be discussed at the next Brest Litovsk peace delegation meeting. The proposals call for immediate evacuation of occupied territory and a referendum, with locally elected representatives to govern the evacuated districts, aided by a focal committee.
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London
Daily Mail
Petrograd
Brest-Litovsk
Trotzky Rejects German Peace Proposals at Soviet Meeting
Petrograd dispatch reports Bolshevik Foreign Minister Leon Trotzky declaring the Russian workers government will not consent to German peace terms. He denounced the Brest-Litovsk scheme, urged defense of the revolution if Czarist and colonial peoples’ rights are denied, and said bread and boots were needed as front lines would be defended.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Central Committee
Counci
Germany
Ile
Bolsheviks Face Possible Separate Peace After Brest-Litovsk Terms
Amid harsh editorials the Bolsheviks confront German peace terms that deny territorial withdrawals and accept independence for Poland Lithuania Courland and parts of Livonia. Kameneff warns of a likely new sacrifice as soldiers refuse to fight. The paper notes Bolshevik distrust and possible revolution rhetoric while Germans push for technical armistice talks and prisoner exchanges.
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Poland
Lithuania
Courland
Livonia
Esthenia
Russia
Polsheviks
Great-Litovsk
Brest-Litovals
Viki
Holshev
Kamenoff
Germany
Maxyar
Kameneff
Hrest-Litovsk
Novaya Zhizusys
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